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Hou Hsiao-hsien ( Chinese: 侯孝賢; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan 's New Wave cinema movement. [1] He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A ...
Hsiao-Hsien Hou. Producer: The Assassin. Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes.
Oct 20, 2015 · Oct 20, 2015. Share. I t’s been seven years since the release of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s film Flight of the Red Balloon, and the Taiwanese auteur is finally back with his long-gestated epic The Assassin, which had its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival earlier this month, ahead of a theatrical release last weekend.
Hou Hsiao-hsien (born April 8, 1947, Meixian [now Meizhou], Guangdong province, China) is a Chinese-born Taiwanese director known for his film explorations of Taiwan ’s history and family life, which emphasized realism through their subject matter and measured pace. Hou was born in mainland China, but his family fled the Chinese Civil War ...
Aug 17, 2015 · Outwardly tranquil yet steeped in the political turbulence of the past century of Taiwanese (and larger Chinese) history, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s meditative cinema has received infuriatingly limited distribution in the west, but has enjoyed considerable exposure of late as a result of major retrospectives and the rapturous reception that greeted his wuxia epic The Assassin at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Hsiao-Hsien Hou. Producer: The Assassin. Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes.
May 28, 2020 · In his excellent book “No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien,” James Udden notes that Hou’s style — particularly his taste for lengthy shots — began partly as a reaction to the ...
